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Kathleen M. Adams
Kathleen M. Adams is a cultural anthropologist, Professorial Research Associate at SOAS, University of London, and professor emerita at Loyola University Chicago. Her scholarship addresses cultural changes in island Southeast Asia, especially the Toraja people of Indonesia, critical tourism studies, heritage studies, arts, and museums.
Adams received her B.A. from the University of California, Santa Cruz and a Ph.D. in sociocultural anthropology at the University of Washington. For advanced Indonesian studies, she attended Cornell University and Satya Wacana University in Indonesia. Before assuming a faculty position at Loyola University Chicago, she was an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Beloit College, where she held the Mouat Family Endowed Chair . She also served as an Adjunct Curator at the Field Museum of Natural History from 1997 to 2022.
Adams has authored and edited multiple books, including three award-winners: Art as Politics: Re-crafting Identities, Tourism and Power in Tana Toraja, Indonesia (2006, winner of 2008 Alpha Sigma Nu Book Award), The Ethnography of Tourism: Edward Bruner and Beyond (2019, coedited with Leite and Casteneda, winner of the American Anthropological Association's 2020 ATIG Bruner Book Award )), and Intersections of Tourism, Migration, and Exile (2023, coedited with Bloch, winner of the American Anth. Assoc.'s Council on Heritage and the Anth. of Tourism's 2023-2024 Bruner Book Prize.). Her articles have been published in a wide range of venues, including the leading journals in her field.
Adams is currently a Fulbright Specialist Awardee (2024-2026). In 2026, she received the Roy Wolfe Award for outstanding contributions to the field of recreation, tourism, and sports geography by the American Association of Geographers Recreation, Tourism and Sports Specialty Group. Adams' research has been funded by foundations such as the Fulbright, the American Philosophical Society, and the Henry R. Luce Foundation. She received Loyola University's Sujack Master Researcher Award (2016, 2020), Loyola University Chicago's 2007 Sujack Award for Teaching Excellence, and recognition by Princeton Review as one of the "300 best professors" in the US and Canada in 2012. In 2023, the American Anthropological Association's Council on Heritage and Tourism established an annual Kathleen M. Adams Student Paper Award. In 2024, she was inducted into Redwood High School's Avenue of Giants.
Adams was a critical tourism studies specialist and lecturer at Gadjah Mada University (2024) in Indonesia, a Visiting Fellow at The Center for Tourism Research at Wakayama University (2020–2023), Visiting Professor at Ateneo de Manila University (2016), Al-Farabi Kazakh National University (2016), and Loyola University Chicago's John Felice Rome Center (2008–2009). She was an Isaac Manasseh Meyer Senior Fellow at the National University of Singapore's Centre for Advanced Study (1999). She taught on University of Virginia Semester at Sea voyages.
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Kathleen M. Adams
Kathleen M. Adams is a cultural anthropologist, Professorial Research Associate at SOAS, University of London, and professor emerita at Loyola University Chicago. Her scholarship addresses cultural changes in island Southeast Asia, especially the Toraja people of Indonesia, critical tourism studies, heritage studies, arts, and museums.
Adams received her B.A. from the University of California, Santa Cruz and a Ph.D. in sociocultural anthropology at the University of Washington. For advanced Indonesian studies, she attended Cornell University and Satya Wacana University in Indonesia. Before assuming a faculty position at Loyola University Chicago, she was an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Beloit College, where she held the Mouat Family Endowed Chair . She also served as an Adjunct Curator at the Field Museum of Natural History from 1997 to 2022.
Adams has authored and edited multiple books, including three award-winners: Art as Politics: Re-crafting Identities, Tourism and Power in Tana Toraja, Indonesia (2006, winner of 2008 Alpha Sigma Nu Book Award), The Ethnography of Tourism: Edward Bruner and Beyond (2019, coedited with Leite and Casteneda, winner of the American Anthropological Association's 2020 ATIG Bruner Book Award )), and Intersections of Tourism, Migration, and Exile (2023, coedited with Bloch, winner of the American Anth. Assoc.'s Council on Heritage and the Anth. of Tourism's 2023-2024 Bruner Book Prize.). Her articles have been published in a wide range of venues, including the leading journals in her field.
Adams is currently a Fulbright Specialist Awardee (2024-2026). In 2026, she received the Roy Wolfe Award for outstanding contributions to the field of recreation, tourism, and sports geography by the American Association of Geographers Recreation, Tourism and Sports Specialty Group. Adams' research has been funded by foundations such as the Fulbright, the American Philosophical Society, and the Henry R. Luce Foundation. She received Loyola University's Sujack Master Researcher Award (2016, 2020), Loyola University Chicago's 2007 Sujack Award for Teaching Excellence, and recognition by Princeton Review as one of the "300 best professors" in the US and Canada in 2012. In 2023, the American Anthropological Association's Council on Heritage and Tourism established an annual Kathleen M. Adams Student Paper Award. In 2024, she was inducted into Redwood High School's Avenue of Giants.
Adams was a critical tourism studies specialist and lecturer at Gadjah Mada University (2024) in Indonesia, a Visiting Fellow at The Center for Tourism Research at Wakayama University (2020–2023), Visiting Professor at Ateneo de Manila University (2016), Al-Farabi Kazakh National University (2016), and Loyola University Chicago's John Felice Rome Center (2008–2009). She was an Isaac Manasseh Meyer Senior Fellow at the National University of Singapore's Centre for Advanced Study (1999). She taught on University of Virginia Semester at Sea voyages.